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Uniden Voice for Non-profits

You cannot hire a receptionist. You also cannot afford to miss a donor.

A not for profit runs on tight administration ratios and a phone that carries everything: donors, clients, volunteers, funders and people who need help. All of it, on almost no staff.

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The bit nobody counts

Administration ratios are why nobody answers, and why donations are lost

Your funders judge you on how little you spend on overheads, which is exactly why you cannot staff a phone. The consequence is that donors and clients both go unanswered.

1A donor who cannot get through gives elsewhere. Somebody moved to donate is at a peak of intent. A ringing phone lets that pass.
2Clients may have no other channel. For many of the people you serve, a phone call is the only way they can reach help.
3You cannot spend your way out of it. Adding administrative staff worsens the ratio your funders scrutinise, so the phone stays unstaffed.
Six things every not for profit says out loud

You have said at least four of these this month

These are not phone problems. They are mission and funding problems that arrive down a phone line.

01

You cannot justify a receptionist

Every administrative dollar is scrutinised by funders, so the phone is nobody's job by design.

Phone coverage that costs a fraction of a salary.
02

Donors and clients need opposite things

One is trying to give you money and one is trying to get help. They queue behind each other.

Separate queues, so neither blocks the other.
03

Appeals create call spikes you cannot staff

A campaign or a media mention produces a flood of calls in a day, against a team of four.

Unlimited simultaneous answering, so an appeal never overwhelms you.
04

Volunteers cannot carry the phone

Inconsistent, unreliable and unfair to people giving their time freely.

Nobody has to volunteer to be reception.
05

Vulnerable callers need care, not a queue

Somebody in difficulty should never be asked to hold or to ring back.

Answered immediately, with escalation to a person for anything sensitive.
06

Reporting to funders is hard

You are asked to demonstrate reach and demand, and your phone produces no data at all.

Every call logged and summarised, which turns demand into evidence.
Watch one of them get saved

8:10pm during an appeal. Both calls are handled.

This is the call that used to ring out. Here it is being answered by a Uniden Voice AI phone agent, in an Australian accent, from what you told it about your organisation.

It sounds like it is from here. Genuine Australian voices, warm and unhurried, not a call centre accent.
It knows your programs and process. What you do, who is eligible, how to donate and how to get help.
It takes donations properly. Amount, frequency and receipting details, so intent turns into income.
It escalates anyone vulnerable. Immediately, to a person, without attempting to handle it.
Uniden Voice AI Agent Live on line 100:44
AgentGood evening, you have called Riverbend Community Services. How can I help?
DonorI saw your appeal on the news tonight and I would like to donate.
AgentThank you, that is really appreciated. Would you like to make a one off donation or set up a regular monthly gift?
DonorOne off for now. Fifty dollars.
AgentThank you. I can text you a secure donation link right now, or take your details for our team to process in the morning. Which would you prefer?
DonorThe link is easier. It is Susan Achebe.
AgentThank you Susan. I have texted you the secure link, and a tax deductible receipt will be emailed automatically once it is completed.
What happened during the appeal
  • Donor answered at the moment of intent, not the next morning
  • Donation amount and preference captured properly
  • Secure donation link texted so the intent converted immediately
  • Donor details and transcript logged for stewardship
One number, sorted by need

A donor and a client should never share a queue

Publish one number. Behind it, donations are taken, clients reach the service they need, and anyone vulnerable always reaches a person.

1300 or your landline The number on every appeal Uniden Voice call flow Hours, queues, priority, overflow Donations and supporters Handled by the agent Client services Always reaches a person Volunteers and general Own queue, own greeting AI agent Catches the rest, 24 hours a day
Live call being routedOverflow and after hours to the AI agent
Demand peaks

Appeals and end of financial year create call floods

Not for profit call volume spikes around appeals, media coverage and the end of financial year giving period. The spikes are enormous relative to your staffing and completely unstaffable.

An AI agent answers unlimited simultaneous calls, converts donor intent while it exists, and makes sure clients and vulnerable callers are never left in a queue behind a fundraising campaign.

Inbound calls across a charity yearshape, not scale
What your team can realistically answer Overflow the AI agent picks up
Illustrative shape based on typical Australian giving cycles. Your own curve depends on your appeals calendar.
It plugs into what you already run

Your phone should know which supporter is calling

Uniden Voice connects to more than a thousand apps and offers open APIs, so a call arrives with the supporter or client and their history attached rather than just a number.

SalesforceHubSpotXeroZohoMondaySlackGoogle Business ProfileGoogle DriveMicrosoft OneDriveOpen APIs for the rest
01 · ON THE RING

Screen pops before you say hello

The caller's name, their history and their open record appear on the handset or in the app as it rings, so the first thing out of your mouth is their name and not "who am I speaking with".

02 · DURING THE CALL

Click to call from anywhere

Ring a supporter straight from the record in your CRM or donor system, without ever typing a number. Fewer wrong numbers, and every call logged against the right file automatically.

03 · AFTER THE CALL

Notes that write themselves

Recording, transcript, AI summary and the next action land in your CRM or your shared drive. Nobody has to remember what was promised on a Friday afternoon.

Why Uniden, and not the other twelve

An Australian platform priced for a mission, not an enterprise

Plenty of platforms will sell you AI at enterprise prices. Very few start at a single user, keep every conversation onshore, and come from a brand Australians have known since 1966.

Onshore, end to end

Designed and built in Australia, hosted in Australian datacentres, and supported by Australians you can actually get on the phone. Your customer conversations do not leave the country.

An accent that lands

The AI answers in a genuine Australian voice. It matters, because a caller who thinks they have reached an offshore call centre hangs up before you get the chance to help them.

Onshore, and that matters here

Calls, recordings and transcripts stay in Australian datacentres, on an Australian owned platform, supported by Australians. Conversations with vulnerable people never leave the country.

One provider, one bill

Keep your numbers including 1300 and 1800, and take the NBN connection from us too. Fewer vendors to chase when something goes wrong at the worst possible moment.

Straight answers

The questions not for profits ask us first

Is this appropriate for vulnerable callers?

Only with the boundaries set correctly, which is how we configure it. The agent does not attempt to support, assess or counsel anybody. It recognises that a caller needs a person and escalates immediately, which is faster than a voicemail and a callback.

For crisis situations the agent is scripted to direct callers to the appropriate emergency or crisis service, and to your own on call arrangements. You define all of it.

Can it take donations?

It can capture the donation intent, the amount and the frequency, and send a secure link so the supporter completes it while they still want to. That timing matters enormously during an appeal.

It can also capture the details for your team to process, and it always logs the supporter so nothing is lost.

Will this hurt our administration ratio?

It usually improves the picture rather than worsening it, because the alternative is either an unanswered phone or a salary. Plans start at a single user, so the cost is a fraction of an administrative hire.

It also produces call data you can report to funders as evidence of demand, which most organisations currently cannot produce at all.

What happens when the AI cannot help?

It hands over, and you decide where. Anyone in distress, any safeguarding concern and any complaint can go straight through to a person, to a specific queue, or to a manager's mobile.

The caller is not asked to repeat themselves either. Whoever picks up gets the context the agent already gathered. Outside hours the agent takes the details, sends an SMS confirmation and queues the callback.

We run more than one office. Does it handle that?

That is where it earns its keep. You advertise one number and we route behind it: by office, by time of day, by queue, with overflow so a call at a flat out office rings somewhere quieter instead of ringing out.

Each office can keep its own greeting and its own direct number as well. Reporting rolls up across all of them, so you can finally compare how each one handles its phone.

Do I have to change my phone number?

No. Number portability is standard, including 1300 and 1800 numbers, so the number on your appeal materials, your website and your directory listings and on years of Google results stays exactly as it is.

We port it across and plan the cutover around your hours, not ours.

What happens if the internet drops?

Calls keep flowing. The mobile app keeps working over 4G and 5G, so your people can answer on their handsets while a site connection is down, and call flows can be set to divert to mobiles automatically.

You can also take your NBN service from Uniden Voice, so the connection and the phone system are one provider with one support number, instead of two companies each suggesting the problem belongs to the other.

How long does it take to get running?

A single site can be live quickly, because the apps need no hardware and the handsets arrive ready to plug in. The part worth doing properly is the call flow and the AI agent's knowledge of your business, and we build that with you rather than handing you a manual.

Number porting is the one step with an external timeline, so we usually run your new setup alongside the old line until the port completes. You never trade a day without a phone.

Now You're Talking

Answer the donor and the person who needs you

Book fifteen minutes. Show us how calls reach your organisation today, and we will show you the version that answers all of them.

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